What Is Cloud Computing? And How to Save Data In The Cloud?

In IT, there are no limits. What 3 years ago was a utopia for many, seems to have come true. Clearly, the cloud changes both the company and the IT department of a company.

Analysts, including visionary Steve Jobs, saying that computers will enter in the “home”. We will not save the data on personal computers, the iPad, Android or Surface and we will not buy software licenses that are “in the cloud”.

What is “cloud Computing”?

Cloud computing is a technology that allows users and companies to use data and applications via the Internet. Basically, cloud allows users to use any type of application without installation and access files from any computer with internet access. This technology lets you organize, gather and process data more efficiently. Hire these services and pay exactly for you use.

The most important principle about the cloud is that these services are configurable and scalable. Connect to servers via the Internet and from there use the data and software.

An example of cloud is the email from Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail, etc.. We use a computer to connect via the Internet servers to Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail etc. as we read the email. Billions of people do this and none of us wants to purchase a email server at home. Analogy is “if you want to drink milk, do not buy the whole cow”. Email service providers dealing in all servers and their management. We benefit from them.

How cloud hosting services changed the business?

Cloud is, above all, a strategic decision taken at top management level. According to a Deloitte survey, 60% of IT companies were considered as a cost center or service provider and only 38% is considered as “value adding partner”. 2% of respondents did not answer.

In these years of economic crisis, the IT department must help to manage the growth and business transformation. Choosing cloud solutions should be aligned with the strategy, constantly developing new ideas or improving old ones.

Cloud Computing

Companies producing cloud computing solutions define their own standards through technology. The common point of these is to solve today’s challenges of any business in cloud services, integrating three components: infrastructure, platform and software:

The cost of a mail server or storage is composed of hardware cost, software cost (if not free distribution), patron of the employee cost of IT that you install, the monthly cost of the power that feeds it, the monthly cost of maintenance of special room where it is stored (16 degrees C) and costs reflected in salary, monthly management of IT administrator. Efficiency of such a server would justify a large part of these costs if they are used at fullest, which is very rare.

Some users occasionally use some type of software. And then the question arises, why the company purchase a license for software that you can rent it as long as needed and pay so much less?

In India, there are few public institutions that have solved problems using cloud solutions. The Ministry of Education has the most visited portal for admission to college. The particularity of this project is that loading systems focus on short periods, around exams.

It makes no sense to complex computer systems for a few days of the year, instead rent these systems exactly for how long they are needed and what capacity you need.

Cloud computing will come sooner or later in our lives, either at home or at work. “Cloud” technology is a step designed to help the company and naturally came to meet business and individual needs.